DO-RA Forever

The DO-RA project (http://DO-RA.com) was born after the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima
Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan and was intended to be a gadget that
worked as a personal dosimeter-radiometer and operated with similarly-named
software, DO-RA.Soft, on any smartphone for mobile platforms: iOS, Android, WP,
etc. as well as on stationary platforms: Windows/Linux/MacOS.

At the end of 2011, the DO-RA project caught the
attention of SKOLKOVO. After the campaign's registration by a resident of
Technopark and analysis of the project by Russian and foreign experts, the
project was supported by the Skolkovo Foundation with a grant of $50,000.
Later, as a part of this project, Intersoft Eurasia developers introduced a
whole line of DO-RA compact gadgets for smartphones and computers, capable of
measuring the ionizing radiation of X-rays, Beta or Gamma ranges in the
environment, food products, water, and from other objects (potentially
hazardous or contaminated with radioactive isotopes) as well as cosmic
radiation in the cabins of airliners during flight.

However, the developers were so enthusiastic about
inventing (their arsenal now includes 70+ Russian and foreign patents) that, at
the beginning of their development, they produced more than 10 different DO-RA
prototypes in batches of 100 units and presented them for free to domestic
visitors of specialized exhibitions and around the world, to interested
customers solely for marketing purposes.

In 2013, the development team executed the first
contract for Rosatom as a part of the Safe City program, where Intersoft
Eurasia sold 10,000 user software licenses and 10 server software licenses,
recouping their costs with interest.

In 2014, Intersoft Eurasia received its 2nd grant for
the development of the project from the Skolkovo Foundation in the amount of $1
million, which was announced in the press. At the same time, Vladimir Yelin, the
project manager, Ph.D. in Engineering Science, received a call from the Dow
Jones manager responsible for Europe and Russia, who was interested in such
details as on what conditions investments were attracted to the DO-RA project,
and is it true that “some” Foundation allocates significant money for
innovations in Russia!? After confirming this event firsthand, the DJ manager
suggested filling out a questionnaire, having explained that such companies
from the DJ list might be of interested in venture investors or industrial
capitalists in the United States.

Soon after, the manager sent the extract from the
registry for DJ venture capitalists, where the capital of Intersoft Eurasia
OJSC was assessed at $10 million.

Later there were many trips around the world: to the
USA, Japan, China, South Korea, and Europe, where innovative solutions
supported by grants of the similarly-named foundation were presented as a part
of the Skolkovo Technopark delegation.

At the end of 2016, the co-investor of the project
faced an economic crisis, and the developers of Intersoft Eurasia actually had
no money for research and development and for growing the DO-RA project. It was
a difficult time.

However, Vladimir Yelin,
the head and founder of the project, did not give up and kept on searching for
investors and partners in the Russian market in 2017–2018. Thus, after
participating in a series of accelerations (in GenerationS with RVC, Ruselectronics,
Voentelecom, and Russian aviation companies (Il, Myasishchev, and S7), and
foreign Airbus) as well as in the Vektor State Program with the participation
of Rosatom, the Skolkovo Foundation, etc., he managed to find an industrial
partner, Sarapul Radio Plant JSC with 100-years experience in radio engineering
and electronics production.

In Q1 2019, the Sarapul Radio Plant produced a pilot
batch of 200 DO-RA.Q cross-platform ionizing radiation indicators with a
dosimeter-radiometer function in the range of measured energies of 60 kW – 3.0
meV Gamma and Beta for mobile platforms: iOS and Android. By the middle of
April 2019, the production of DO-RA.Q products in the amount of 2,000 units
will be completed.

Currently, the website of the Intersoft Eurasia developer
displays the statistics of pre-orders in the amount of 6,780 requests for DO-RA
devices.

According to the developer company, it has already
started to design the next DO-RA model, DO-RA.badge/BLE, in the shape of a flat
device with the dimensions of a credit card which operates with smartphones,
tablets, and desktop computers through the BLE 4.0/5.0 remote protocol.